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FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESKACHIEVEMENTSCAMPUS NEWSCAMPUS CALENDAR NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018
From the Director's Desk
October saw a short break from the fast-paced semester
activities with the mid-term break along with the festive season
when we had celebrated Dusshera on campus. We have geared
up with admissions activities for research degree programs for
the next term. The month ended on a high note of activity, with
a MoU signing with NIMHANS, RMIT 2018, and Yamini 2018.
In October, we honor and celebrate relentless work. While our
own Dean’s list was announced in October, the month is special
worldwide for the Nobel prize announcements. 2018 Nobel Prize
in Physiology/Medicine went jointly to James P. Allison and
Tasuku Honjo for “their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition
of negative immune regulation”; Prize in Physics was awarded
“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” went
half-way to Arthur Askin for ““for the optical tweezers and their
application to biological systems” , and then, jointly to Gérard
Mourou and Donna Strickland for “their method of generating
high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”; Prize in Chemistry
went halfway to Frances H. Arnold for “directed evolution of
enzymes” and then, jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P.
Winter for “the phage display of peptides and antibodies”; Peace
Prize jointly to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for “their efforts
to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed
conflict“; and Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
the memory of Alfred Nobel to William D. Nordhaus for
“integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic
analysis,” and Paul M. Romer for “integrating technological
innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.”
We also take this opportunity to pay our respects to Paul Allen,
who passed away on October 15. Paul was an American
philanthropist, business magnate, technologist, and investor, and
he has been more famous as the co-founder of Microsoft.
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Achievements
Amitabh Tiwari (MT2017018) and Akash Shendge (MT2017010) won the IBM Hack
Challenge with INR 40000 and 6 months internship offers at IBM Software Labs. The
hackathon results were announced on October 26. The team had worked on the
development of SHADE Engine (Social-media Health Analysis and Display Engine) using IBM
Watson Services and custom ML models. The goal was to detect whether a person is
suffering from depression through his social media activity (Instagram Images, Medium
Blogs, Tweets) and then come up with measures to overcome the same.
Abidha V. P. (PH2016010) won the TCS Research Scholarship, instituted by Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS). She is working towards her thesis in Theoretical Computer Science under the
supervision of Prof. Pradeesha Ashok.
Vinay Chandrashekar (IMT2015523) won the 1st Place Poster Student Paper Award in
IEEE Sensors 2018 Conference for his paper on “Motion Adaptive Image Capture in a
Body-Worn Wearable Sensor.” The co-authors of the paper are Masudul Imtiaz and Edward
Sazonov, of the University of Alabama.
The Dean’s List was announced in October 2018. The following students have made it
to the Dean’s List -- Ashish Kumar Srivastava (DT2016003), Dipanjan Saha
(DT2017004), Amogh Johri (IMT2017003), Ananya Appan (IMT2017004), Ayush Yadav
(IMT2017009), Deep Inder Mohan (IMT2017013), Eric John (IMT2017016), Kaushal
Mittal (IMT2017024), Seelam Lalitha (IMT2017027), Swasti Shreya Mishra
(IMT2017043), Yeddula Sai Dhanush Reddy (IMT2017047), U. Prateksha
(IMT2017517), Ram S. (IMT2017521), Rathin Bhargava (IMT2017522), Kalyanapu
Sailesh (IMT2017524), Gopalakrishnan V. (IMT2016001), Aayush Grover
(IMT2016005), Satvik Sunkam Ramaprasad (IMT2016008), Shobhit Pankaj Behl
(IMT2016024), Akshi (IMT2016025), Biswesh Mohapatra (IMT2016050), Aditya Gulati
(IMT2016052), Aditya Shridhar Hegde (IMT2016054), Lakshmi Manonmale
Pasumarthy (IMT2016057), Nomula Rohith Yogi (IMT2016072), Nimisha Garg
(IMT2016082), Dachepalli Soumith Kumar (IMT2016110), Ananth Shreekumar
(IMT2016129), Abhiramon R. (IMT2015002), Aditya Ankush (IMT2015003), Alavala
Deepika (IMT2015006), Ghantasala Oormila (IMT2015015), Utkarsh Agrawal
(IMT2015044), Aparna D. Nair (IMT2015504), Krishna Nagaraj (IMT2015512), Pranav
Aggarwal (IMT2015517), Vinay Chandrashekhar K. (IMT2015523), Ahmad Shayaan
(IMT2014004), Ankita Christine Victor (IMT2014005), G. Neha (IMT2014018), Gaurav
Koley (IMT2014019), Indu Ilanchezian (IMT2014024), Meghana Kotagiri
(IMT2014034), Seelapureddy Venkata Rama Aditya Reddy (IMT2014047), Paliwal
Aditya Sanjay (IMT2013004), B. Laasya (IMT2013008), Devarsh K. U. (IMT2013012),
Komaragiri Vasundhara (IMT2013018), Kumaresh Krishnan (IMT2013021), Meghana
M. Reddy (IMT2013025), Nigel Steven Fernandez (IMT2013027), Pranay Dugar
(IMT2013030), Rajesh D. M. (IMT203032), Simran Dokania (IMT2013044), Sri Veda
Chevuru Reddy (IMT2013047), Trisha Mittal (IMT2013053), Akshita (MT2017012),
Anamol Saxena (MT2017020), Anmol Asrani (MT2017023), Shinde Deepali Deelip
(MT2017037), Veerapuraju Dhanya Akhila (MT2017041), Harshita Gupta
(MT2017047), Jaishankar G. M. (MT2017054), Kavya K. Puranik (MT2017060),
Sumitesh Purohit (MT2017120), Gaorav Kumar Gupta (SMT2017003), Rahul Kumar
(SMT2017013), Sowbamika Thiruppathiraj (SMT2017023), Surendra Pandey
(SMT2017027), Anjana K. (MT2016011), Archana R. (MT2016021), Chavala
Sriharipriya (MT2016040), Chellapriyadarshini M. (MT2016041), Jyotsana
(MT2016068), Kanika Narang (MT2016069), Meghna Ajay Srivastava (MT2016082),
Naik Shivani Shrikant (MT2016088), Nimrani Alok Ramesh (MT2016094), Nishant Oli
(MT2016096), Patel Meet Shantibhai (MT2016102), Sabari Nathan A. (MT2016138),
Suparna Ghanvatkar (MT2016138), Polareddy Bhavani Lakshmi (MT2016518),
Prashanthi S. K. (MT2016520), Sulochan Naik (SMT2016023), Kavin Kumar T.
(SMT2015014), Kishore S. N. (SMT2015015), Mohanraja B. (SMT2015020). The list
has been published at: https://www.iiitb.ac.in/donates.php?pid=student-iiitb&
class=Dean039s-List1
Campus News
India Literacy Project (ILP) in partnership with IIITB organized a Rural Education
Hackathon on October 6 with a singular focus on - to explore ideas & technology
solutions to aid and empower the large rural teacher community across India. The
hackathon winners are:
Team#1 Cisco - Solution named “Srimathy” for Rural English language teaching
Team #2 Skillio - Chatbot solution for career Counseling
On October 6, Fae Bikes organised an inaugural event at IIIT Bangalore where they
launched Fae Bikes - India’s first IoT-powered automated electric scooter share
service, and FaeSpark - fast charging station network for Electric Vehicles in the presence
of Chief Guest, Shri Gaurav Gupta, the Principal Secretary of Department of IT, BT & ST.
IIITB was a Community Partner in the Open Source India 2018 event
scheduled during October 11-12 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru. Open
Source India (OSI) is an attempt by the team at Open Source For You magazine in
partnership with India’s Open Source community and industry to bring various
stakeholders under one roof. The Academic partnership with Open Source India 2018
event has been helpful. Thirty five students from IIITB who attended the conference,
have acknowledged that the program was current, relevant and useful to them. The
program gave us some open source ideas which we can put in to practice in our Open
Source Technology Lab projects.
Ayudha Puja and Saraswathi Puja were celebrated at IIITB on October 17.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between IIITB and NIMHANS on
October 30. The MoU is regarding the research and development of an IT-enabled solution to
support the management of mental health care in Karnataka. This project will be
implemented by the E-Health Research Center under the leadership of Prof. T. K. Srikanth, in
partnership with NIMHANS and the Government of Karnataka.
The ninth conference of Ramanujan, Math and IT (RMIT2018) was held during
October 30-31 at IIITB. This series of conference celebrates the life and work of the
Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, by bringing together pure and applied
mathematicians and information theory professionals together. This edition was
inaugurated by the Director, Prof. S. Sadagopan. The conference had talks by Prof. V.
Arvind (IMSc, Chennai), Prof. D. Surya Ramana (HRI, Allahabad), Prof. Anand Louis
(IISc, Bangalore), Prof. R. Ramanujam (IMSc, Chennai), Prof. R. Balasubramanian
(IMSc, Chennai), Dr. Karthik Ramachandra (Microsoft Research Lab), Mr. K. Subramani
(IIITB), Prof. Vijay Patankar (JNU, New Delhi), Dr. Anusha Mujumdar (Ericsson
Research, Bangalore), Prof. C. S. Rajan (TIFR, Mumbai), Prof. C. Pandu Rangan (IIT
Madras), and Prof. Ashish Choudhary (IIITB). The conference is organized by IIITB
faculty members by a committee headed by Prof. Manisha Kulkarni.
SPIC MACAY chapter of IIIT Bangalore held the second edition of its overnight
cultural event, Yamini 2018, from dusk to dawn during October 31-November 1. The
event celebrated five major classical art forms. The event commenced with the performance
of Hindustani Violin by Dr. N. Rajam, a Padma Bhushan awardee. Dr. Rajam has been
awarded the 2012 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honor in the performing
arts, conferred nationally. It was then followed by Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh, the founder of
Indian National Orchestra, playing the Saraswathi Veena. Dr. Kumaresh has received many
awards in India, such as, the “Sangeetha Choodamani”, the “Kalaimamani” by the
Government of Tamil Nadu, to name a few, and is a seven-time recipient of “Award for
Veena” conferred by the Music Academy, Chennai. Vidwan S. Saketharaman along with a
group of artists gave a Carnatic vocal performance, next. Vidwan Saketharaman has
received the Yuva Kala Ratna, M. S. Subhalakshmi Award, amongst several others, and was
a recipient of the “Best Vocalist Award” conferred by the Music Academy, Chennai, for three
consecutive years. Koodiyattam exponent Margi Madhu Chakyar performed next, showcasing
the dance drama from the state of Kerala. Margi Madhu, who is involved in research projects
on various aspects of the Koodiyattam art form, has received several awards for his body of
work, such as the Sanskriti National Award for young artists, the Yuva Kala Ratna award, the
Theatre Pasta International Award, and the Kerala Kalamandalam Award. Yamini 2018 event
concluded with a performance by Dr. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande performing Hindustani
vocals, at sunrise. Dr. Bhide-Deshpande had decided to pursue her career in music, after
receiving a doctorate in biochemistry; and today, she is a renowned vocalist with a unique
style, blending her influences from the Jaipur-Atrauli, Mewati, and Patiala gharanas. The
event was organized by a large team of student volunteers, led by Bhavisha Sahitya
(MT2018025), with Gaurav Joshi (MT2018035), Srujana Kamath (DT2017010), Minnu Ann
Abraham (MT2017069), Tripti Agarwal (MS2017009), Ajayveer Singh (MT2018004), and
Anushka Parashar (MT2017024) playing key anchor roles for various aspects of the event
organization. Profs. G. Srinivasaraghavan and Janaki Srinivasan are the faculty members
involved in the effort.
The second meeting of the Governing Council, and of the Senate, of the
Myanmar Institute of Information Technology (MIIT) was held in Mandalay, on
October 30. Prof. Chetan Parikh attended the meetings as a representative of IIT
Bangalore, which is mentoring MIIT.
Seetarama Raju Pericherla (IMT2014038) presented his paper titled "Modeling
Confirmation Bias Through Egoism and Trust in a Multi Agent System" at the 2018
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2018) held in
Miyazaki, Japan, from October 7-10. The other authors of the paper are Rahul Rachuri
(IMT2014041) and Prof. Shrisha Rao. The full citation is: Seetarama Raju, Rahul Rachuri,
Shrisha Rao (2018). Modeling Confirmation Bias Through Egoism and Trust in a Multi Agent
System. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2018),
Miyazaki, Japan, October 2018.
Balaji Parthasarathy co-authored the following paper with Yuko Aoyama. "When both
state and market fail: Inclusive development and social innovation in India."
Area Development and Policy. 3(3):330-348, 2018.
Chaitali Diwan (PH2016002-TODO-roll number), Srinath Srinivasa, and Prasad Ram
presented and published their work "Computing Exposition Coherence of Learning
Resources", in proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Ontologies,
Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2018), Springer LNCS, Valletta, Malta,
October 22-26, 2018. Paper is available at:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-02671-4_26
Prajwal Sharma (MT2016519) and Krishna Nagaraj (IMT2015512) presented their
paper on "Development of a minimally invasive Ventricular Assistive Device",
co-authored by Vikas Vazhayil (PH2016014) and Prof. Madhav Rao, at the IEEE
Sensors 2018 conference held in New Delhi during October 29-31.
Nitin Nair presented his paper, jointly authored with Chinchu Thomas (PH2015017) and Dr
Dinesh Jayagopi, and titled "Predicting Engagement Intensity in the Wild Using Temporal
Convolutional Network" at the 6th Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (EmotiW), 20th
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2018, Colorado, USA. The
system built by the authors was ranked 3rd in the "Engagement in the Wild" challenge.
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Prof. Manish Gupta gave a talk on "Applying Machine Learning for Human Learning" on
October 10 at Bangalore Science Forum, National College, Bengaluru
(http://bangalorescienceforum.in/)
Profs. Subhajit Sen and Chetan Parikh presented their research on pipelined ADC
design at the annual inter-university research conference of ISRO-SAC (Ahmedabad)
on October 30, 2018.
New Faces on Campus
October 01: Dr. Priyanka Das joined as Assistant Professor. More at the faculty webpage:
https://www.iiitb.ac.in/faculty_page.php?name=drpriyankadas
October 31: Dr. Vinod Veera Reddy joined as Assistant Professor. More at the faculty
webpage: https://www.iiitb.ac.in/faculty_page.php?name=vinodveerareddy
October 30: The state of the art seminar on “Open Government Data and citizen
participation – A study of MGNREGA” by Rajesh D. Hanbal (PH2015008)
October 10: "Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM)" by Prof.
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Associate Professor at IIIT-Delhi, Visiting Associate
Professor at IIIT Hyderabad.
October 24: “Automatic Discovery of Efficient Divide-&-Conquer Algorithms for
Dynamic Programming Problems” by Dr. Pramod Ganapathi, Founder & CEO, Learning is
Beautiful.
October 03: Mr. H. R. Ananth, Managing Director, Bangalore Press
October 06: Mr. Gaurav Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary to Government, Department of
ITBT, Government of Karnataka & Participants of ILP- IMACX Hackathon
October 17: Delegates from Mahatma Gandhi International Higher School of
Informatics and E-Leadership, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
October 31: Mr. Nishchal Nadhamuni & Mr. Andrew Klarity
October 8: “Some emerging (and re-emerging) areas in digital VLSI Systems”
by Prof. Subir K. Roy.
October 15: “Understanding a post-web world” by Prof. Srinath Srinivasa.
October 22: Algorithms in Software Engineering” by Prof. Sujit Kumar
Chakrabarti.
October 29: “Healthcare” and “Data Privacy and Aadhaar” by Prof. T. K. Srikanth.
November 07: Holiday for Diwali
November 24: Graduation Ceremony of Post Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics/Science
December 3-8: Finals week